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None of us wants to move but if I couldn't afford my mortgage or to live in my house, then I'd have to - but then again, I work and pay tax. Shall I pay a bit more so that these people who don't want to do this or that, can do as they please? I'm getting sick of the moaning now. It's tough for all of us!

i am sick and tired of listening to all this bedroom tax council tax well tuff get a job or down size stop giving imigrants money send them back to where they came from look after what should be britain and british people if they dont want to work dont pay them cant work find them jobs they can do at home

answer to bobble 1956 is (probably) that the because the wife hasn't had to work before, she probably planned her next years living off benefits and thus never thought to equip herself with skills and knowledge that would allow her to enter the job market. Hence there is probably no job suitable for her. I do have sympathy with the family and put the blame firmly at the governments of the last 20 years who helped make benefit claiming socially acceptable.

I presume that being in the house for thirty years is a mistake as Roy would have been eighteen and Cheryl would have been seven years old when they moved in. How can someone live in council accommodation for thirty years? Obviously when working Roy had a good job, spending £11,000 on his council owned property, why didn't they put that as a deposit and purchase a house at the time, they would be mortgage free by now. If you moved to another house I'm sure that you would be entitled to single payment benefit to cover carpets and curtains to make it habitable.
£764 a month in benefits for doing nothing, only paying twenty percent of the council tax, something others can only dream of.

People who say they smoke 5 a day really smoke at least 10 so by my reckoning if she gives up the fags she's got to be at least £25 a week better off, it's a good start and will more than cover the 'bedroom tax'. Stop complaining about how difficult life is when you still smoke which is both expensive and kills you.